Barry Diller

All the people who were in the mailroom, they just wanted to get to be agents, since I didn't want to be an agent.

I took the job no one else wanted.

They all wanted to go, and that horrible word, network around, meet people, press people, do whatever.

I went to the dungeon and had this job that allowed me basically almost the entire day to read.

And that's what I did for three years until I think they were on the verge of throwing me out.

And you've got to go do step, step, step, step to get there.

There are roles like that.

But if you have a specific craft or something, you can name that craft as a goal and train for it or do whatever you have to do for it.

I've never had any goals.

I had the goal that I wanted to count and I had the goal that I was

fascinated by the entertainment business.

I don't like it when people come in to the early stages of a broad general entertainment career and say, I want to run a studio or things like that.

I think whatever your interest is, you just get on the broad path.

whatever door you got to bang to get in there, you get on the broad path and everything else takes care of itself.

You don't have to say, I want to be this or I want to be that.

My observation is that doesn't really work.

What works is if you get lucky enough to get a position that you don't have experience for, that you haven't mastered, and then you just go about doing it.

The sparks you set off naturally impress others and lead.

They drag you to the next step.

You don't have to do much of anything.